SET APPOINTMENT FOR A DATE EVERY 2 WEEKS -- VERSION 1: REPEATING APPOI

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SET APPOINTMENT FOR A DATE EVERY 2 WEEKS -- VERSION 1: REPEATING APPOI

SET APPOINTMENT FOR A DATE EVERY 2 WEEKS -- VERSION 1: REPEATING APPOINTMENTS

I have an appointment every other Wednesday. To have the 95LX remind me of this appointment, I created five repeating appointments, each one for a different week (1st-5th). To do this, press (MENU) View Monthly-Repeat Position (F8), and then insert the appointment.

Each of these five appointments has the same title, preceded by the week number (1Appt, 2Appt, etc.).

The week number will change for each appointment (1st-5th).

The Weekday is Wednesday.

Start/End time vary.

Start/End date vary (see below).

I vary the Start/End date, depending on how the Wednesdays fall. For Example, the first two months in 1993 have four Wednesday's each. March has five Wednesdays. If I start my bi-weekly meetings on Jan 6, the sequence of meetings is as follows: 1st and 3rd Wednesday in January; 1st and 3rd Wednesday in February; 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday in March.

Remember that I created five repeating appointments. I enable the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday repeating appointments by setting their start dates to 01/01/1993 and their end dates to 04/01/1993. For those first three months, the repeating appointments will appear on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of the month. The 5th Wednesday appointment in January and February is ignored because those months don't have a 5th Wednesday.

The final Wednesday meeting in the above sequence is on the 5th Wednesday of March. The next Wednesday meeting will be on the 2nd Wednesday of April, and subsequent Wednesday meetings will fall on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays through June 1993. So I set the 2nd and 4th Wednesday repeating appointments start dates to 04/ 01/1993 and their end dates to 07/01/93. The 2nd and 4th Wednesday repeating appointments will show up in those months.

Depending on the current month and on how future months work out, I either have the repeating appointments for weeks 1, 3, and 5 enabled or those for weeks 2 and 4.

July through September are on the 1st, 3rd, 5th Wednesday schedule, so I reset the Start/End dates on those repeating appointments sometime in April. I set ToDo items on future dates remind me to reset the Start/End dates. The thing to remember is that the 2nd/4th, 1st, 3rd, 5th pattern switches whenever you have a month with five Wednesdays.

The single digit suffix is there so that I can tell which entry is causing a problem if I see an appointment pop up in the wrong week. How's that for a kludge?

Jeffrey Mattox

CompuServe ID: [71044,2356]

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